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HIV: treatment considerations and side effects

Through interactive case histories, learn how to recognise the main class related side effects associated with the main antiretroviral
drug categories. With multimedia video.

Learning outcomes

After completing this module, you should be able to:

Recognise the main class related side effects associated with the main antiretroviral drug categories

Identify common interactions

Identify common barriers to effective treatment

Recognise that patient education and involvement is paramount to managing HIV infection.

Written by:

Anna Ellis

Anna Ellis

Anna Ellis

Biography
:

Anna Ellis is a clinical editor for BMJ Learning.

Disclosure
:

No competing interests.

Updated by:

Taslima Rashid

Taslima Rashid

Taslima Rashid

Biography
:

Taslima Rashid is a specialist registrar in her final year of training in HIV and sexual health at Chelsea and Westminster
Hospital.

Disclosure
:

No competing interests.

Contributors:

Georgia Woodfield, Brian Gazzard, Mark Nelson

Georgia Woodfield, Brian Gazzard, Mark Nelson

Georgia Woodfield

Biography
:

Georgia Woodfield is a core medical trainee doctor in London. She graduated from Edinburgh University in 2009 and trained
in Bristol and then London. During this time she spent a year working as a clinical teaching fellow, responsible for teaching
medical students at Bristol University.

Disclosure
:

No competing interests.

Brian Gazzard

Biography
:

Brian Gazzard is a consultant gastroenterologist and professor of HIV medicine at Chelsea and Westminster hospital. He was
clinical director of this unit, the largest AIDS unit in the country, from 1989 until 1996. He is the founder and first chairman
of the British HIV Association, and is chairman of the British HIV Guidelines Writing Committee.

Mark Nelson is a consultant HIV physician at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, and the lead for HIV in patient and day
case care. He is also reader and adjunct professor in human immunodeficiency virology at Imperial College Medical School.

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